Barry Goldwater, Jr., a dark-haired carbon copy of his father, took swipes at Medicare and “welfare state pundits” when he addressed a luncheon meeting here Tuesday. Young Goldwater and Dr. Edwin Durno, Oregon campaign manager for Barry Goldwater in the Republican presidential primary, came to Hood River on a swing up from the Columbia Gorge from Portland.

One of the prime goals in their meeting here was to emphasize that recent cancellations of Oregon dates by the elder Goldwater was no sign the conservative senator from Arizona had lost interest in the state’s May 15 primary.